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I found this opinion piece to be worth considering, and relevant to the context of your question: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/opinion/coronavirus-race-...
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If I think about writers and scientists, I think about their archives being homed at universities and such. I'm always kind of amazed that certain artists (writers, painters, etc) end up with volumes of letters that sometimes get publi
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Ha. That reminds me.. in college, I was employed by a "Class Notes" service to write the notes that other people in class bought so they didn't have to take notes. I got great market for my notes, and when the class was over,
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It was less than $2K. I'll refer you to the other thread trending today about a blogger who upgraded from the Macbook Air I have to a new Macbook Pro and doesn't like it. I also have Dell and HP equipment, and most of them have we
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I’m still running a 2014 MacBook Air. It’s fast enough, but I do want a more powerful machine for video editing. Is there a Windows based machine that’s likely to still feel as new and solid after 6+ years as an aluminum bodied MacBook?
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I’ve wondered for years whether there has been an effort within police forces to congregate at a national level and work out improvements in their own processes, standards and relationship to issues seen with police practices. Arresting peo
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Oh, that’s where the name comes from. I hang dry most of my laundry in my own house still. I learned to appreciate this after moving from a big city to a town of 13 people. Of course we all had lots of space but my house had one of those ci
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Isn't that at odds with the whole point of this post (which I'm not even sure I agree with)..? People want to be in the same space so they can have small, in-person interactions. Those have softer priorities than intentional commu
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We've been at the DRM game a long time, through games, music, videos, etc. They all work about as well as they've worked before. If you want to control your hardware, do what you will. But I'm not happy if you need controls i
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I meant Leanpub.
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I read it as a suggestion in the middle: you don't have to dress over, but you shouldn't dress "under". Some people will benefit from rising to the middle. That said, one of the most influential people I know at a FAANG
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I'm near the age group being discussed here... I think about how variable people from high school can look when they hit you up on the social networks. The "presenting" age range of people from my graduating class feels sprea
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Sooooo many people shave their heads nowadays, balding or otherwise.
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I’m writing a Leanbook in Typora. After trying out nearly every MD editor I could find on Mac, it was my favorite.
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Check out “The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop” by Stephen Koch.
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Is there a TweetDelete like service that resets this setting regularly? I realize it shouldn’t be necessary. I’ve mostly stopped using Twitter, but I ask out of curiosity.
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I'm surprised how much rationalization towards the billionaire class is being employed to reason against sympathy and sustenance for the working class individuals impacted by this. The billionaires have all the advantages, and often ho
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And I've worked in the in-between configuration, where remote first was US oriented. Our co-workers in Asia worked our schedule, or at times, overlapped a bit. That includes organizations where there was no office (well, a condo in the
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I have zero desire to go into an office. Ever. Very happy WFH, and have.. on and off, for years. Sometimes self-employed. Also like part time digital nomad-ing. Companies that are WFH friendly tend to have less meeting waste and office cult
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You can also review PCI, SOC, and other compliance and audit practices to understand why enterprise production environments are built the way they tend to get built. Also, look at some reference architecture plans and then imagine how you’d
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I don’t understand equating competing in a sport as representative of being a “real” [gender]. I support trans+ rights, but I haven’t been able to get my head around some of the assertions that seem to be bedrock here.
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I work in banking. Everything we do, that's easier elsewhere, is harder in banking, because it's a bank (regulated, money, etc). Everything Facebook builds has to scale to billions immediately. Could be a contributing factor to wh
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I’ve somehow managed to work in this industry twenty years and never be pressured to work on weekends, except for occasional emergencies or exceptional releases, and I’ve never felt pressured to happy hour with anyone. In SF, no less. I’m a
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I keep collecting podcasts and audio books but when I have downtime, I tend to listen to music. I used to listen to podcasts on public transit, but somewhere along the way I stopped and haven't picked up the habit again. I don't h
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I pay for Youtube Premium, but I find it curious (and objectionable) that their "View in Incognito" function (in Youtube) will not reflect Premium-ness. They show ads. They still know who you are -- because it's just an optio
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I deleted my reddit account and read it read-only-accountless now. Having zero inclination to post there keeps my reading habit super lightweight. I don’t even bookmark subreddits. Just dip and dive out. I just can’t handle more than that a
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Used to work at a PaaS, which had a 17 year old codebase. It did something that none of our competitors could do, which was really important to our client base. We were a second-tier player in the space, where the 1st-tier player would be e
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If you work at a job where you don't feel the agency of your decision making and output, if you're working for "the man", it can be relatively demotivating. If you're working for yourself, and you know why you'
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They're too old now, health issues keep them house bound. There was a time where they had the money and vitality to tackle the things that kept them out of their comfort zone. They were forced out of their country by a military invasio
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My parents are east European immigrants to the US. They’ve had a hard life, never adjusted well. Calls to mom last about 20 seconds before she hands the phone off to my father, who will recount the mistakes and sufferings of his life. They’

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